A Guide for the Management, Analysis, and Interpretation of Occupational Mortality Data

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• Personal Author:
  Lalich, Nina ; Burnett, Carol ; Robinson, Cynthia ; Sestito, John ; Schuster, Lois
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies. Illness Effects Section
• Description:
  This report was intended to serve as a guide for state health departments in the area of occupational mortality surveillance. Guidelines were provided concerning data collection, data processing, analyses and followup. Methods for improving data quality were suggested, coding procedures were explained, and a comparison was made of various statistical methods. A lengthy reference list was included along with a list of persons to contact at NIOSH and in the state health departments for further information and assistance. In the sections concerning methods for screening the data, the report discussed the study population, disease and exposure categories, adjustment factors, estimates of risk (standard mortality ratio, proportionate mortality ratio, and the standardized mortality odds ratio), statistical inference and interpretation of the results. For followup studies, the report reviewed validation procedures, proportionate mortality ratio analyses, case/control studies and geographic or trend analyses. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Mortality Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Data-processing Industrial-hazards Mortality-data Mortality-rates Mortality-surveys NIOSH-Author Worker-health
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB90115
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-88
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00196213
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB91-152728
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 90-115, 1990 Sep; :1-88
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1990
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8f330444bf3fe7da51fdba332816853e23508c945e504639d46aa05a6a5aa2d3d4899a9387aa39666a507f2c009ce24487fdd334cc6dc3812b59d528a8793ea1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6505/cdc_6505_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.05 MB ]